A study on contamination of ground and surface water bodies by leachate leakage from a landfill in Bangalore, India

This paper discusses the effects of a potential leachate leakage from a municipal solid waste landfill, situated at Mavallipura, Bangalore, India, on the surrounding water bodies. The landfill area is spread over an area of about 100 acres that began accepting waste from 2005. MSW was deposited in n...

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Published inInternational Journal of Geo-Engineering Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 1 - 20
Main Authors Naveen, B. P., Sumalatha, J., Malik, R. K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore Springer Singapore 01.12.2018
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
SpringerOpen
Subjects
Civil Engineering
Concentration
Contaminants
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Environmental aspects
Foundations
Geoengineering
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Heavy metals
Hydraulics
India
Landfill
Leachate contaminant
Leachates
Leakage
Migration
Municipal landfills
Municipal waste management
Original Research
Runoff
Sanitary landfills
Slope stability
Soil contamination
Solid waste management
Surface water
Waste management industry
Water pollution
India
Landfill
Leachate contaminant
Concentration
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Summary:This paper discusses the effects of a potential leachate leakage from a municipal solid waste landfill, situated at Mavallipura, Bangalore, India, on the surrounding water bodies. The landfill area is spread over an area of about 100 acres that began accepting waste from 2005. MSW was deposited in non-engineered manner that has resulting in steep and unstable slopes, leachate accumulation within the MSW mass, and leachate runoff into nearby water bodies such as ponds and open wells. The current study investigates the physicochemical characterization of landfill leachate and nearby water bodies. The batch leach tests were conducted to know the heavy metal concentrations in the contaminated soil. A series of column tests were also conducted to estimate the migration rates of different contaminants through the soil. Furthermore, these transport parameters were considered as input for fluidyn-POLLUSOL model to estimate the migration of leachate from the landfill site to the surrounding water bodies.
ISSN:2092-9196
2198-2783
DOI:10.1186/s40703-018-0095-x